Limbaugh: What if the other Michelle was introduced with the song “I like big butts”?

posted at 7:25 pm on November 23, 2011 by Tina Korbe

Maybe the folks over at The Daily Beasthave a point: This might have been a little less than classy of the Great El Rushbo. It does have a little “eye-for-an-eye” quality to it. (And, in general, I tend to think both the office of the president and the office of the First Lady deserve to be respected in and of themselves.) But it’s also — I have to admit — pretty funny.

Playing off Bachmann’s point earlier today that NBC would definitely apologize if Jimmy Fallon and The Roots had treated Michelle Obama the way they treated her, Rush today introduced a fake Mrs. O with Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” You know the one. “I like big butts and I cannot lie” …

When somebody in his studio seems to demur, Rush says, “I get it. One is true and one is not. That’s the difference.” Bold, I tell ya: The man does not back down.

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Imagine if conservatives were all made up of people like itsnotaboutme, the left would rule everything because we would be to worried about hurting their feelings and doing something politically incorrect.

The Notorious G.O.P on November 23, 2011 at 8:13 PM

Unfortunately too many “conservatives” are like him. The left does rule pretty much everything. Look how often someone on our side says something the left deems politically incorrect, or “insensitive” and the speaker then wets their self like a puppy.

However, I believe it seems Tina may have an embedded image (the pic of Rush) that is just a tiny wee bit wider than it should be for the HA template, which might carry over to other pages at HA (until you refresh the other pages).
whatcat on November 23, 2011 at 8:32 PM

So if I dropped this thread from the Tabs it might work fine?
sharrukin on November 23, 2011 at 8:37 PM

Hmmm….I’m using FF v.8.0.1 w/Windows and I’m don’t see any problems with multiple HA tabs. (Though I usually just have one tab open on a commenting site so I don’t put a comment in a wrong thread!)

But if you compare the embedded pic of Rush above to the one that the pic links to, you’ll see the one here is stretched a bit horizontally. Could be just enough to throw some individual PC/device off a bit in the page rendering.

Apologies to one of my fave political allies, Jelly Toast, who rightfully scolded me about bashing Her Majesty a few weeks ago. Hey, Mr. Toast, I’m tryin’ hard, really hard, but sometimes, when her over-reach intrudes so often into my personal life, and is so relentlessly and shamelessly reinforced by MSM, it’s almost impossible not to vent.

Maybe the folks over at The Daily Beast have a point: This might have been a little less than classy of the Great El Rushbo. It does have a little “eye-for-an-eye” quality to it. (And, in general, I tend to think both the office of the president and the office of the First Lady deserve to be respected in and of themselves.)

Go pound sand. You deserve only as much respect as you give, and don’t even try to tell me that Barry and Michelle respect the American people, the will of the people, our form of government, anyone with an opposing viewpoint, capitalism, American ideals, American exceptionalism, the Constitution, or the Office of the President. I’ll respect him when he respects us. Til then, he can kiss my a$$.

Classless is the President of the United States telling his supporters that people like myself are his enemy and we should be punished. Some of you need to wake up and understand the type of people we are dealing with.

You might have to get dirty to win the war we are fighting with these people. This includes the Rinos who want to tell us moderation is key, as if slowly spending ourselves into bankruptcy will make a difference in the end result.

Well, Tina every once in awhile puts up a pic that’s too big for the template without “telling it” to resize in the embed code, so that was my first suspect, lol. Sometimes just a silly millimeter can throw a page off for some people. When you’ve been dealing with such stuff for umpteen years, it’s easy to diagnose the simple stuff pretty quickly.

That was in very poor taste. Remember when Halperin called Obama a Dick? The reaction should be the same in this case. So the question is if conservative representatives can be ridiculed, why can’t democrats be ridiculed?

This is pretty tame satirical stuff from Rush. That bit with Bachmann on Fallon’s show is what we call a cowardly passive-aggressive act by stunted boys who don’t know how to act like respectful men when someone disagrees with them. Next time, just have a large bucket filled with pig blood waiting up on the rafters and dump it on Bachmann’s head as she waves to the crowd on stage. Might as well go all in.

“Maybe” and “might” from a lady are hardly fightin’ words that should provoke a nasty response like that. Besides, you didn’t read Tina’s entire post, you flew off into an uncalled for rage at just a few innocent out-of-context intro words. To save you the effort of scrolling up:

But it’s also — I have to admit — pretty funny.

Playing off Bachmann’s point earlier today that NBC would definitely apologize if Jimmy Fallon and The Roots had treated Michelle Obama the way they treated her, Rush today introduced a fake Mrs. O with Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” You know the one. “I like big butts and I cannot lie” …

When somebody in his studio seems to demur, Rush says, “I get it. One is true and one is not. That’s the difference.” Bold, I tell ya: The man does not back down.

Where do you get the idea that Reagan was “nice” Listen to some of his speech’s he took out after the left with passion. How nice was it to say “tear down this wall” Or “the left knows so much that isn’t so” No my friends the magic of Reagan was his timing. G-D I miss the gipper!

What has Tina done to you to “deserve” that from you?
whatcat on November 23, 2011 at 9:04 PM

I thought it was fine to respect the office and still hate the man.
F15Mech on November 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM

Maybe something went WHOOSH! over my head, what with visions of turkey dancing in my head, but I’m not quite getting your connection there, F15Mech. You mean in showing respect to Tina as you might an officer/office holder or ?

Maybe something went WHOOSH! over my head, what with visions of turkey dancing in my head, but I’m not quite getting your connection there, F15Mech. You mean in showing respect to Tina as you might an officer/office holder or ?

Used to like Rush but somehow – every time we take the moral high ground he does something to spoil it.

HondaV65 on November 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM

And how’s that been working out?

If being called racist bigots is part of the moral high road, I’ll pass. If watching people like Bachmann and Palin get called c*nts with nary a blink, I’ll pass. If it means that Palin gets accused of mass murder, gets rape threats and yuks about the “wombshifter”, I’ll pass. If it means that people like Cain and Thomas get called Uncle Toms, I’ll pass.

What I will do is support people who fight back and are willing to put themselves out there to make the point.

Using FF with noscript so I can block the annoying adds from Hotair.
F15Mech on November 23, 2011 at 10:18 PM

I have Adblock Plus so its not a problem.
sharrukin on November 23, 2011 at 10:23 PM

Yup, noscript isn’t very discreet in what it blocks, too much of a drastic solution to a simple problem (ads). If you’re using Windows or Mac you should give your PC a good cleaning, inc the FF cache, with a freebie such as CCleaner. Although you can clean FF simply by using “Clear Recent History” under “Tools” on the menu bar.

If you’re using Windows or Mac you should give your PC a good cleaning, inc the FF cache, with a freebie such as CCleaner. Although you can clean FF simply by using “Clear Recent History” under “Tools” on the menu bar.

whatcat on November 23, 2011 at 10:34 PM

Already have CCleaner and I make it a habit to clear my history every couple of days at least. I think it was the picture in this thread. If I drop the tab it loads fine. Refresh. Then I can go back by reopening the thread before closing the tab once more.

Already have CCleaner and I make it a habit to clear my history every couple of days at least. I think it was the picture in this thread. If I drop the tab it loads fine. Refresh. Then I can go back by reopening the thread before closing the tab once more.
sharrukin on November 23, 2011 at 10:36 PM

I’m compulsive on keeping the PC clean, lean and mean. Thorough cleaning, registry cleanup and defragging before each shutdown. Only takes maybe two minutes.

The reason it’s funny – classless or not – is that it’s almost trivially easy to imagine an interviewer doing just that to anyone in the world who is not the activist wife of a Democratic President.

That said, I’m not feeling sorry for Michelle Bachmann. Her credulousness, more than anything else, disqualifies her from being President. She shouldn’t have needed a hard education at all after observing what happened to Sarah Palin three years ago, but she certainly should have learned after all of her own run-ins with the media.

Tina Korbe, go away and come back when you learn how not to write equivocating posts. In sum, grow a pair and take a stand one way or another. This wanting to have your cake and eat it stuff is for the spineless.

Maybe the folks at DC have it right on Rush. Then your snickering comments begin. Either you agree with Rush or you don’t. Whichever, you don’t get to go CYA mode.

The Leftards will now think twice about insulting a Conservative: not because they want to, but because they KNOW that the right’s parody of their juvenile tricks will be SO MUCH BETTER AND ON THE MARK…and the Leftards’ will look even more lame and juvenile.

” (And, in general, I tend to think both the office of the president and the office of the First Lady deserve to be respected in and of themselves.)”

I used to think so too but that is now so in the past. I lost respect for the office when the Libs showed zero respect for Bush.
The country is being destroyed within and I’m supposed to show respect for politicians?

IMO the idea of FLOTUS warrenting respect just due to the office is based on a sitting FLOTUS staying totally out of anything political – just doing the warm & soft feel good stuff. When MO ventures into political campaigning she loses any deference her role entitoles her to. If she wants to push BO’s agenda she gets the same treatment Hillary got.

As long as we accept both their behavior and their demand that we live up to higher standards of conduct they will come accross as tough and we will come accross as weak in the eyes of the public.

We saw Bush 43 attempt to “rise above the fray” by not dignifying his harshest critics with a response. Instead of looking Presidential he ended up looking like someone who could not address the snipes and lies.

I only wish that Rush came up with something uglier for that witch in the White House!

Precisely. There is no use to this “high ground” if no one sees it but you. The media has consistently painted the moral high ground as an area occupied by people too weak, too unprepared, and too immoral to fight back.

Where do you get the idea that Reagan was “nice” Listen to some of his speech’s he took out after the left with passion. How nice was it to say “tear down this wall” Or “the left knows so much that isn’t so” No my friends the magic of Reagan was his timing. G-D I miss the gipper!

jainphx on November 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM

Agreed. To this day, the left fears the man. They are still butt-hurt by the thrashing he handed them.